Why doesn Goldmine include a better Maximizer importer with the software?
That is a good question. If Goldmine did, we would not have bothered developing the procedure. For one thing, it takes a number of different software packages to accomplish the job: Novell BTrieve or Pervasive.SQL, Sequitter Codebase, Microsoft Visual Studio and ZedTek’s ZTreeWin. This would be too expensive. It may come down to one word: “BLoB.” GoldMine’s BLB file stands for “Binary Large oBject.” This is where the Notes, Email addresses, Attachment paths, Passwords, Usernames, etc. are stored. Blob is a good name for it. It is a complex file, and one wrong byte corrupts it. So special care must be taken to ensure the information from Maximizer goes into the right place. The conversion process takes more than a simple MAP file. Other programs, such as Outlook, can be easily imported. It is just a matter of matching the fields from one data file into Goldmine’s structure. But Maximizer’s data structure is not that simple. Another reason is Maximizer’s unusual field use. Maximizer uses
